Every day is a gift. And sometimes gifts are the wrong size or don't fit properly. Or it just wasn't something you really wanted, like a 790 piece puzzle about horses in the mist. Still, it's rude to be ungrateful.

While we were busy fumbling with hand gestures and illustrations like cavemen, other cultures just made up the perfect words and phrases to encapsulate those little everyday moments filled with ... uh ... je ne sais quoi.

It is amazing how much the human perspective has changed in the last fifty years. Before the expansion of modern medicine and psychiatric care, people were exposed to brutal procedures and morbid beliefs. In the last 500 years, many strange politic...